If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.